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Radagaisus invades Italy

The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Arcadius (sixth time) and Probus (AD 406) that Radagaisus, a pagan and a Scythian, flooded all Italy with two hundred thousand of his people.

Limits: A Latin chronicle written at Constantinople c. 518-534, used through Mommsen's 1894 edition (MGH AA 11) as Internet Archive OCR text (page images not checked); the English is an AI working translation. OCR 'ct' read as et. The figure of 200,000 is the chronicle's; Mommsen's margin cites Orosius 7.37 as the source. Jordanes, Romana 321, draws on Marcellinus here. Cassiodorus, entry 1169, reports Goths entering Italy under Alaric and Radagaisus in the consulship indexed to 400. The episodes need not be identical.

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Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894Read the source